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Social Issues and Policies

Social Issues and Policies is a research topic within Safety Research. Science Explorer counts 2.6k research works in it since 1951. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of economic policies, market failures, and globalization on social disparities, poverty, and community well-being. It delves into issues of economic inequality, social justice, sustainability, and public policy, with a focus on wealth distribution and labor markets.

  • Economic Inequality
  • Social Justice
  • Globalization
  • Poverty
  • Market Failures
  • Sustainability
  • Public Policy
  • Wealth Distribution
  • Community Well-being
  • Labor Markets
Research works
2.6k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
264
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United Kingdom
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Social Issues and Policies

Which countries lead Social Issues and Policies research?

By volume, the United Kingdom and Australia publish the most (110 and 64 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United Kingdom 110 works
  2. 2 Australia 64 works
  3. 3 United States 47 works
  4. 4 Ireland 14 works
  5. 5 Canada 11 works
  6. 6 France 10 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 8 works
  8. 8 New Zealand 8 works
  9. 9 Italy 6 works
  10. 10 Poland 6 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United Kingdom: 38.6%Australia: 22.6%United States: 16.5%Ireland: 5.0%6 others listed: 17.2%39%largest
United Kingdom110 · 38.6%Australia64 · 22.6%United States47 · 16.5%Ireland14 · 5.0%6 others listed49 · 17.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Social Issues and Policies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Canberra publishes the most Social Issues and Policies research, followed by The University of Melbourne and University of Oxford.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of CanberraAustralia 8 works
  2. 2 The University of MelbourneAustralia 5 works
  3. 3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 4 works
  4. 4 Australian National UniversityAustralia 4 works
  5. 5 The University of SydneyAustralia 4 works
  6. 6 UNSW SydneyAustralia 4 works
  7. 7 University of BristolUnited Kingdom 4 works
  8. 8 Deakin UniversityAustralia 3 works
  9. 9 University College DublinIreland 3 works
  10. 10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Social Issues and Policies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Social Issues and Policies include George Davey Smith, Martin McKee and Michael Gideon Marmot.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  3. 3 Michael Gideon Marmot United Kingdom 170k citations
  4. 4 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Social Issues and Policies?

The most cited paper in Social Issues and Policies is "Critical appraisal skills programme" (Jatinder Singh, 2013), with 2,626 citations. Next come "The precariat: the new dangerous class" (1,824) and "Social sustainability: a catchword between political pragmatism and social theory" (953).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Critical appraisal skills programme Jatinder Singh · Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics 22 Feb 2013 2,626
2 The precariat: the new dangerous class Martin G. Allen, Patrick Ainley · International Studies in Sociology of Education Sep 2011 1,824
3 Social sustainability: a catchword between political pragmatism and social theory Beate Littig, Erich Grießler · International Journal of Sustainable Development Open access 2005 953
4 The General Household Survey F. R. Oliver · Social Policy and Administration Mar 1974 874
5 Capital in the 21st Century Andrew G. Haldane, Rachana Shanbhogue, Orazio Attanasio et al. · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics Open access 13 Mar 2015 773
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Where is Social Issues and Policies research done?

The largest centres of Social Issues and Policies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Canberra (Australia) and Sydney (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 26 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 13 works
  3. 3 CanberraAustralia 13 works
  4. 4 SydneyAustralia 11 works
  5. 5 DublinIreland 10 works
  6. 6 BrisbaneAustralia 7 works
  7. 7 OxfordUnited Kingdom 6 works
  8. 8 BirminghamUnited Kingdom 4 works
  9. 9 GlasgowUnited Kingdom 4 works
  10. 10 CardiffUnited Kingdom 4 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LondonGB · 26.2 works7.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Social Issues and Policies than the world average.

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Is Social Issues and Policies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Social Issues and Policies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Social Issues and Policies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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